Cultural Finance: A World Map Of Risk, Time And Money

Thorsten Hens is Swiss Finance Institute Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Zurich and Adjunct Professor of Finance at University of Lucerne, Switzerland as well as at the Norwegian School of Economics, NHH, in Bergen. He studied at Bonn and Paris and previously was professor in Bielefeld and taught in Stanford. His main research areas are behavioural finance with applications to wealth management and evolutionary finance with applications to asset management. Thorsten Hens has published more than seventy peer-reviewed journal articles, and is the co-author of nine books. Moreover, he is one of the founders of the UZH-Spin Off Company Behavioral Finance Solutions, the Swiss Fintech Innovations Association and the UZH Blockchain Center. Thorsten Hens holds many mandates in pension funds, insurance companies and banks.

Marc Oliver Rieger is Professor of Banking and Finance and Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Trier, Germany. He studied in Konstanz and obtained his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Leipzig. Previously he held positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, the University of Zurich, Bielefeld and the NCCU, Taiwan. His main research areas are behavioural decision theory, behavioural finance and cultural finance. He is also interested in cultural differences in economic decisions with a focus on East Asia and initiated a third-party funded research cluster on this topic. Marc Oliver Rieger has published more than fifty peer-reviewed journal articles, some of them in his former research field (applied mathematics), and has written books on financial economics and on derivatives.

Mei Wang is Professor of Behavioral Finance at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany. She studied computer science at Xiamen University, China and after working for the Bank of China, she moved on to the USA where she obtained a PhD in social and decision science from Carnegie Mellon University. Previously she held positions at University of Mannheim, Germany, University of Zuerich, Switzerland and the NCCU, Taiwan. Already in her PhD thesis Mei Wang was working on topics in cultural finance. Since then she continuously published in this field, but also in behavioural decision theory, behavioural finance and risk analysis.